Android · free and open source
Shoot a take in clips, read it back as text, and cut the silences out of it. Built for videos where talking is the whole point.
Not on Google Play yet. Testers get it first.
Why it exists
TikTok has no cut silences. Edits has one, but it isn't accurate. So I built Cutly.
One take, three steps, all on the phone.
A segmented camera, like TikTok's. Pause ends a clip and recording again starts the next, so a fumbled line costs one clip, not the whole take.
Transcribe the take on the phone, offline, or with your own cloud key. You get timestamped lines you can edit, and captions burned into the export.
Cutly measures how loud the take is every 20 ms and cuts where it stays quiet. It tells you how many cuts and how many seconds come out before anything is encoded, and your hand trims stay where you put them.
This is a real 2:12 take from Cutly: how loud it was, every 20 ms. Move the sliders the way you would in the app. The cuts come from the same code, ported line for line.
Cutly only goes by the audio. Anything that stays quiet long enough is a cut.
Talking heads, tutorials, explainers, interviews. If you speak through the whole video, the pauses between your lines are exactly what comes out.
B-roll, scenery, quiet moments. Cutly can't see a good shot, only hear it. If that part of the audio is silent, it gets cut.
Nothing leaves it unless you ask, and then only the audio.
Apache-2.0. Read exactly how the cuts are placed, file an issue, or build it yourself.
Google Play asks for twelve testers before a new app from a personal account can launch. Be one of them: install it from Play, keep it for fourteen days, and tell me what breaks.
Yes. Cutly is free and open source under Apache-2.0. If you use cloud transcription, the provider whose key you paste bills you for it, not Cutly.
Android 10 and up. There is no iPhone version.
No. Recording, cutting and offline transcription work without a connection. The internet is used only for the one-time Whisper model download and for cloud transcription with your own key.
If the audio under it is silent, yes. Cutly decides from loudness alone. Raise the shortest pause, or lower the silence threshold, and fewer quiet stretches qualify.
Right now, through the Google Play test: leave your Gmail at cutly.riecodes.com/tester. The source is on GitHub if you would rather build it yourself.